With the Oscar nominations due to be announced tomorrow, now is the time that the Shattered Lens indulges in a little something called, “What if Lisa had all the power.” Listed below are my personal Oscar nominations. Please note that these are not the films that I necessarily think will be nominated. The fact of the matter is that the many of them will not. Instead, these are the films that would be nominated if I was solely responsible for deciding the nominees this year. Winners are starred and listed in bold.
(You’ll also note that I’ve added four categories, all of which I believe the Academy should adopt — Best Voice-Over Performance, Best Casting, Best Stunt Work, and Best Overall Use Of Music In A Film.)
(Click on the links to see my nominations for 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, and 2010!)
Best Picture
The Disaster Artist
Kedi
Lady Bird
The Meyerowitz Stories
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Director
Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Patty Jenkins for Wonder Woman
*David Lowery for A Ghost Story*
Martin McDonagh for Three Billboard Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Andy Muschietti for It
Edgar Wright for Baby Driver
Best Actor
*Sam Elliott in The Hero*
James Franco in The Disaster Artist
Jake Gyllenhaal in Stronger
Daniel Kaluuya in Get Out
James McAvoy in Split
Robert Pattinson in Good Time
Best Actress
Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman
Sally Hawkins in Maudie
Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Cynthia Nixon in A Quiet Passion
Aubrey Plaza in Ingrid Goes West
*Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird*
Best Supporting Actor
Woody Harrelson in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sam Rockwell in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Adam Sandler in The Meyerowitz Stories
Bill Skarsgard in It
*Patrick Stewart in Logan*
Jason Sudekis in Colossal
Best Supporting Actress
Holly Hunter in The Big Sick
Catherine Keener in Get Out
Sophia Lillis in It
*Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird*
Carey Mulligan in Mudbound
Ella Rumpf in Raw
Best Voice-Over or Stop Motion Performance
Will Arnett in The LEGO Batman Movie
Gael Garcia Bernal in Coco
Bradley Cooper in Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2
Doug Jones in The Shape of Water
*Andy Serkis in War for the Planet of the Apes*
Dan Stevens in Beauty and the Beast
Best Original Screenplay
Get Out
*Lady Bird*
The Meyerowitz Stories
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Adapted Screenplay
Before I Fall
*The Disaster Artist*
Their Finest
Best Animated Film
Cars 3
Coco
Leap!
Best Documentary Feature
Karl Marx City
*Kedi*
Risk
Step
Strong Island
32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide
Best Foreign Language Film
First They Killed My Father
Frantz
*Kedi*
Best Casting
Detroit
Dunkirk
Get Out
Lady Bird
*The Meyerowitz Stories*
Best Cinematography
Dunkirk
Lost City of Z
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best Costume Design
The Beguiled
Thor: Ragnarok
Best Editing
Before I Fall
Dunkirk
Best Makeup and Hairstyling
The Disaster Artist
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2
Lady MacBeth
Logan Lucky
My Cousin Rachel
*Thor: Ragnarok*
Best Original Score
*Good Time*
Dunkirk
The Shape of Water
Wind River
Best Original Song
“Buddy’s Business” from Brawl In Cell Block 99
“Evermore” from Beauty and the Beast
“Friends are Family” from The Lego Batman Movie
“How Does A Moment Last Forever” from Beauty and the Beast
“Myron/Byron” from The Meyerowitz Stories
*”The Pure and the Damned” from Good Time*
Best Overall Use Of Music
Atomic Blonde
The Disaster Artist
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2
Thor: Ragnarok
Best Production Design
The Beguiled
Thor: Ragnarok
Best Sound Editing
*Dunkirk*
War For The Planet of the Apes
Best Sound Mixing
*Dunkirk*
War For The Planet of the Apes
Best Stuntwork
Dunkirk
Thor: Ragnarok
Best Visual Effects
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Thor: Ragnarok
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
*War For The Planet of the Apes*
Films Listed By Number of Nominations
9 Nominations — Wonder Woman
7 Nominations — Baby Driver, Dunkirk, It, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
6 Nominations — A Ghost Story, Lady Bird, Thor: Ragnarok
5 Nominations — Beauty and the Beast, The Disaster Artist, The Meyerowitz Stories
4 Nominations — The Big Sick, Blade Runner 2049, Get Out, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Logan, Spider-Man: Homecoming, War For The Planet Of The Apes
3 Nominations — Good Time, Kedi, The LEGO Batman Movie
2 Nominations — Before I Fall, The Beguiled, Coco, Kong: Skull Island, Raw, Shape of Water
1 Nominations — Atomic Blonde, Brawl in Cell Block 99, Cars 3, Colossal, Detroit, First They Killed My Father, Frantz, Free Fire, The Hero, Ingrid Goes West, It Comes At Night, Karl Marx City, Lady MacBeth, Leap!, Logan Lucky, Lost City of Z, Maudie, Mudbound, My Cousin Rachel, A Quiet Passion, Risk, Split, Step, Strong Island, Stronger, T2: Trainspotting, Their Finest, 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Victoria & Abdul, Wind River
Films Listed By Number of Wins
3 Oscars — A Ghost Story, Lady Bird
2 Oscars — Baby Driver, Dunkirk, Good Time, Kedi, War For the Planet of the Apes, Wonder Woman
1 Oscar — Beauty and the Beast, The Disaster Artist, The Hero, The LEGO Batman Movie, Logan, The Meyerowitz Stories, Thor: Ragnarok
Will the Academy be smart enough to agree with me? Probably not. We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
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